____Selected exhibitions

• Artists of Hawai‘i, invited artist, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005
• Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i State Art Museum, Honolulu, 2002
• Shige Yamada, retrospective, Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center, Makawao, Hawai‘i, 2001
• Gift of Water, commission, Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu, 1998
• Rainbows, commission, Stan Sheriff Center, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, 1998
• Maui Releasing the Sun, commission, Kahului Airport, Kahului, Hawai‘i, 1992
• Collective Visions 1967-1997: The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1997

Born in 1933 in Wailuku, Maui, Shige Yamada has a BA, 1955, BEd, 1956, and a MFA, 1966, from the University of Hawai‘i. He was designated a Living Treasure of Hawai‘i by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission in 1993 and, in 2005, was one of two artists to be included in the Maui One-Hundred by The Maui News. Yamada has taught art in California, Hawai‘i, and Japan and authored the book Ceramics in Hawai‘i, 1977.